Basic
Which group first started agriculture?
native americans
What percentage of the population farmed?
100%
What percentage of the population farmed?
92%
What year was the United State Department of Agriculture established?
1862
In 1950's what still outnumbered tractors?
Horses
They obtained food by hunting, fishing, and gathering plants to eat, rather than by growing crops and raising animals.
Hunters/ Gatherers
Who invented the Cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What was invented to fence in animals?
Barbed wire
What was invented in 1959?
Mechanical tomato harvester
Neolithic revolution is also called
Agricultural Revolution
If you produced and made what you needed to survive you were called?
Self-Sufficient
Who invented the plow?
John Deere
When was the transcontinental railroad completed?
1890
What is the average farm today in acres?
446 acres
Domestic pigs came from
A raw material or agricultural product that can be bought and sold
Commodities
What year was the mechanical reaper invented?
1831
What was the Smith Huges Act, and what year was it established?
provided vocational agriculture in schools, 1917
In Virginia what was the cash crop that use to be grown?
Tobacco
Less than what percentage of the population farms today?
2%
What year was the cotton gin invented?
1793
What year was the plow invented?
1837
What created the dust bowl?
Tillage of the land and severe drought led to the dust bowl
Name 5 Commodities in Virginia
Broilers, cattle, turkeys, dairy products, soybeans, corn